Definition of quack

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Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

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Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
Charlatanry :: Charlatanry (n.) Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
Quackling :: Quackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quackl.
Quackeries :: Quackeries (pl. ) of Quacker.
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Medicaster :: Medicaster (n.) A quack.
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Charlatan :: Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank..
Salver :: Salver (n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack..
Quack :: Quack (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor..
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..
Mountebankish :: Mountebankish (a.) Like a mountebank or his quackery.
Quackism :: Quackism (n.) Quackery.
Quack Grass :: Quack grass () See Quitch grass.
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
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